PALAVER SAUCE (BEEF AND SPINACH)

Palaver Sauce is actually
not a sauce at all but a stew. In Ghana it is made with a
combination of meats, fish, and greens with tomato paste and is
called Palaver Sauce or Kontonmire Stew. The name itself has
interesting origins; "Palaver" (or Palava in Ghana)
means a long-winded debate or quarrel. It seems that the first
Palava Sauces were made with greens which had long ropey stems.
As a large group of people stood around the stew the first to
ladle out his portion would invariably slap his neighbour with
one of the long stems, provoking a quarrel, and much talk and
discussion would follow. The greens are now finely cut, but the
name remains.